From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Tabbed buffers Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 15:53:13 +0900 Message-ID: <87abmpcecm.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <18330.23354.579245.68671@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <87ejc5sf4l.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <18330.29609.396872.678539@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <87wspxqwjv.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87myqq5p2o.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87fxwh6f1j.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87ejc1zrmf.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <18334.18811.401234.753403@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1201589253 32147 80.91.229.12 (29 Jan 2008 06:47:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 06:47:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Nick Roberts Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 29 07:47:52 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JJkG7-00054Y-DW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 07:47:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JJkFg-0000Qk-HD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 01:47:24 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JJkFd-0000Qb-IW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 01:47:21 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JJkFc-0000Q0-7l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 01:47:21 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JJkFc-0000Px-2A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 01:47:20 -0500 Original-Received: from mtps02.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.224]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JJkFb-0002vr-KS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 01:47:19 -0500 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mtps02.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id C757F7FFA; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 15:47:15 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A78D91A29E5; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 15:53:13 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: <18334.18811.401234.753403@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under 21.5 (beta28) "fuki" (+CVS-20071205) XEmacs Lucid X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:87740 Archived-At: Nick Roberts writes: > Does XEmacs have tabbed buffers in a tty? I can't get them to > appear. No. We have no GUI features in TTYs, no menus, no scrollbars, no dialogs, no toolbars, no images. Nobody has ever asked for them, either, not even for compatibility with Emacs. > In fact their functionality seems very limited in an X window and > even the manual says that they are experimental. The only way I've > found to create a second tab is by clicking on a link in a help > buffer. To see what they do, try C-x C-f *.c in emacs/src/ (or maybe for sanity's sake in lib-src). The default configuration takes buffer list and applies the filter "keep buffers whose major mode is the same as the current mode", then truncates that list to at most ten tabs. C-h a buffers-tab will tell you a list of functions and variables used to implement the default configuration.